say it: AHR-gahn
argon is a noun meaning "a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere". It carries one recorded sense.
a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for argon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.